Good evening ladies and gentleman and a warm welcome to all on behalf of Avartan Theatre, University of Hyderabad. Before start let me say few words about Avartan. As you all know Avartan is quite a well-known at the University of Hyderabad and in the world of theatre. This organisation was founded 2 years back to promote theatre among those who don’t have theatre background at all. It tries to break the conventional and elite mentality in this area. We welcome people from different departments, background, communities and cultures. Thus today we have students from almost all disciplines. We are quite successful to achieve our goal and we have miles to go. We need your support and blessings. Its all for you, as aptly said Avartan-Theatre for all.
To add a little about the workshop, in the similar line of action like other years, we conducted a theatre workshop from 23rd September to 2nd October 2011. The responses were huge, nearly 100 students applied for the workshop. Not only from University of Hyderabad, we also got candidates from EFLU and MANUU. We selected nearly 40 candidates for the workshop of this year after a formal audition. With little initial training on basics of theatre, improvisional abilities, mental creative exercises and personality development we divided the whole team into four groups and those four groups will perform tonight in front of you.
A few common things for your attention, the students who are performing are not any mature or professional actors and they are just students like you from different streams. So, if the performances do not meet your expectations, please take it as part of exercise as there is always a chance to develop in future. The idea, concept and design of these improvisional acts are done by the students fully without any direct support from any theatre expert in order to develop their self-confidence. Our organisation, Avartan does not hold any responsibility with the content of these plays. Personally we don’t want to criticise anyone but unfortunately if it happens, just take it as co-incidents and please never mind at all.
Few instructions with deep request please switch off your mobile phones or keep them in silent or vibrate mode during the play. Flash photography is strictly prohibited; please do not come near to the stage. Please don’t howl, claps or shout unnecessarily, it disturbs the performers. So enjoy the plays without disturbing others. Now we will present four small plays of the students. One play will be 15 to 20 minutes. The plays are; LH to MH Travels, Prakriti Ka Panchnama, Maara Iss Mahengayi Ne and Aaj Ke Sham Bandh Ke Naam. Over to you, enjoy yourself. Thanks a lot.
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